Imagine going to the supermarket and find all the dry goods packaged in returnable containers, coolers full of fresh milk and orange juice in washable plastic jugs, and soft drinks in returnable glass bottles. At the liquer store next door, customers bring bags full of beer bottles for return to the local brewery and wine tankards for the winery to refill. Therre are no disposable diapers sold in the store, just cloth ones, washed by the service across the street, which employs 20 residents full-time.

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